There is a very silly tree in Nicole Krauss and Jonathan Safran Foer’s front yard. It is made of metal and has hands.
In lieu of a facile cutesy-Brooklyn joke, we give you a link to a recent interview with Jonathan Safran Foer, wherein he says that writing is like fleeing Read More
Today on Salon, Laura Miller attempts to disabuse readers of the notion that author blurbs are a good way to choose a book. The topic arises because Nicole Krauss (noted Under-40 novelist) recently earned widespread mockery for her comically effusive blurbing of David Grossman’s To the End of the Land. Read More
The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss. W.W. Norton, 252 pages, $23.95.
There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she
was horrid.
I present Read More
May 15 – May 22, 2002
Wednesday 15th
Parry and thrust! Ladies, remember how right after Sept. 11, it seemed as if men were due for a big comeback -how all that lifting and welding and rescuing just made us want to roll over, give up and get pregnant ? That belief evaporates with Read More
